Today’s Kids Don’t Need to Fear the Dentist

It’s not a matter of erasing our kid’s dental fear, it’s about reprogramming your own dental health habits then passing those valuable attributes down to your kids.

Parents need to set a positive example; not only in youth sports, nutrition, education, arts & music, and social interactions…but also in dental health!

If your kids have dental anxiety we need to explore the triggers and causes of this misdirected dental dread.

3 Quick & Easy Tactics for Dealing with Your Kids Fear of the Dentist

1. Educate kids on why dental health is important – will they be more afraid of a dentist or a cavity creep?
2. Share your dental health successes with your kids – talk to them about your dental appointments, show them pictures, videos, and books. And talk about the cool tools your awesome dentist uses to fend off said cavity creeps.
3. Don’t talk bad about going to the dentist yourself.

That last one will probably have more impact on the mindset of your kids when it comes to dental appointments than anything else.

As all parents know, kids are very quick to point out our hypocrisy – don’t enable children’s dental fear by unknowingly communicating dental health negativity!

How do you apply the advanced dental anxiety abatement tactic of releasing only the necessary information to get your child to, through, and from their dental appointment?

Got any other interesting tips on getting your kids to the dentist, sans the fear?

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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on DentalPatientNews.com and has been republished here with permission. It has since been updated for accuracy & comprehensiveness.

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